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Challenger Brands: Change is guaranteed. Growth is optional.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

are we making the greatest impact possible? Category leaders went hard and exhausted their resources, consumers bought every last roll of Charmin, cans of Lysol and the shelves were soon barren. Just ask Westward Whiskey founder Richard Black: “When the pandemic hit, our business halted. The big questions for us included?—?are

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A CISO’s playbook for responding to zero-day exploits

TechCrunch

We keep calling every new zero-day exploit a “wake-up call,” but all we have been doing is collectively hitting the snooze button. There should be a specific category for critical zero-day vulnerabilities. SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, MSFT Exchange — these names have become synonymous with infamous cybersecurity events.

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How to Control Your Board Discussion and Avoid Chaos

Both Sides of the Table

It’s surprising how often I heard people start with “does anybody have any question” and it is seriously a 0% hit rate of a successful opening to a meeting in all of the times I’ve seen it. I’d Like to Intro You To … My greatest pet peeve on boards is when you have “over introducers.”

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Daily Crunch: World’s largest Black-led VC fund leads $4M seed round for Nigerian retail automation startup

TechCrunch

And here’s more from our Greatest Hits album from the past 24 hours: Dat is wel genoeg zo* : Natasha L reports that Deliveroo confirms Dutch exit next month. Bendy batteries boldly begin : Bendy batteries could power new categories, and Anthro Energy thinks it’s cracked the code , by Tim. by Sophie Alcorn.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

Both Sides of the Table

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# Most companies hit a bump in the road at some point. Yes, I include many micro VCs in this category. I love that.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

If your responsibility is just hitting “Forward” on emails you get and making an occasional intro, it’s less common to get a retainer. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: . Most scouts get paid only on a success basis, without a retainer. Consilience Ventures.

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